I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
SALMAN RUSHDIEYou can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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We all owe death a life.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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